Chapter 30
Jesus Is Rejected by the Jews
Verse 1: Soon after this, in Jerusalem the Festival of the Dedication took place. For it was winter, | John 10:22
2 and Jesus was walking around in the temple courts, in the portico of Solomon. | John 10:23
3 So the people gathered there surrounded and questioned him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you really are the Messiah, tell us plainly.” | John 10:24
4 Jesus answered, “I have told you, I'm not the Messiah and yet, you will not believe me. The works that I do in my Father’s name will testify to me, | John 10:25
5 but you do not believe what I say since you do not belong to my flock. | John 10:26
6 They hear and know my voice. I know them, and they follow me. | John 10:27
7 If they do my works, I will give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. | John 10:28
8 My Father, in regard to everything that you know of, is greater than all. | John 10:29
9 The Father and I are one.” | John 10:30
10 Then some of the his opponents picked up stones again, with which to throw at him. | John 10:31
11 Jesus responded, “You have seen many good works from my Father. For which of those works are you going to stone me?” | John 10:32
12 The religious leaders answered him, “It is not for a good works that we are going to stone you for but rather for blasphemy, because you, being a man, are claiming to be God.” | John 10:33
13 Jesus answered them and said, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’? | John 10:34
14 If even your own system glimpsed this and could not contain or understand it, how much less can your system contain or judge what stands before you now? | John 10:35
15 You ask if I blaspheme. But blasphemy requires a shared framework. I do not stand inside your law. I was not sanctified by it nor sent through it. On what basis do you judge me by it? | John 10:36
16 If I am not doing the works of my Father, you should not believe me. | John 10:37
17 But I am doing my Father's works, even though you will not believe me, believe in the works, so that you may know and understand that my Father is in me and I am in him.” | John 10:38
18 Then they attempted to seize him again, but he escaped out their hands. | John 10:39
19 Then he went back beyond the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing before, and he stayed there for a while. | John 10:40
20 Many came to him, and they began to say, “John performed no sign, but everything that this man says is true.” | John 10:41
21 And many believed in Jesus there. | John 10:42
The Narrow Door
22 Jesus went through on his way, from each village and town, one after another, teaching as he made his way towards Jerusalem. | Luke 13:22
23 Someone in the crowd asked him, “Lord, will only very few be saved?”. | Luke 13:23
24 Jesus said to them, “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, for there will be many, I tell you, who will try to enter and will not be able. | Luke 13:24
25 When the banquet is set and the door is shut, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to me,’ then he will reply and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ | Luke 13:25
26 Then you will plead, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and we taught your word in our streets.’ | Luke 13:26
27 But he will say to you, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Get away from me, children of the wicked one!’ | Luke 13:27
28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you find yourselves thrown out into the darkness. | Luke 13:28
29 Then people shall come from north and south and from east and west to take their places and sit at the banquet in the kingdom of my Father. | Luke 13:29
30 But indeed, those who are last who will be first, and those who are first who will be last.” | Luke 13:30
The Lament over Jerusalem
31 At that time some Pharisees came and said to him, “Go away and leave this place because Herod wants to kill you.” | Luke 13:31
32 He said to them, “Go and tell that old fox for me, ‘Look, I am casting out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and then on the third day I will complete my works. | Luke 13:32
33 Nevertheless I will be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day. My time has not yet come in order to be killed outside of Jerusalem.’ | Luke 13:33
34 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often have I desired for you to change your ways, and you were not willing! Woe to you. | Luke 13:34
35 Look, your house shall be left to you desolate. And I tell you, you will not see me again until it is too late.” | Luke 13:35
Jesus Heals the Man with Edema
36 On one occasion when Jesus was walking to the house of a chief priest of the Pharisees to have a meal on the Sabbath, they were all watching him closely. | Luke 14:1
37 There right in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with edema. | Luke 14:2
38 And Jesus questioned the experts in the law and Pharisees, “Again, we ask you. Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?” | Luke 14:3
39 But they remained silent. So Jesus approached him then healed him and sent him away. | Luke 14:4
40 And He asked them, “which one of you, who has a child or an ox that has fallen into a well, would you not immediately draw them out on a Sabbath day?” | Luke 14:5
41 Then an expert in the law answered him, “It is true that the mandate to relieve a fallen ox supersedes the Sabbath rest. Yet, this man’s swelling was no imminent threat to his life, and therefore required no immediate action.
42 However, because you healed him by word and touch alone, performing no physical labor recognized by the law, you have not transgressed the Sabbath. We have no legal charge against you.”